A US Air Force plane made an emergency landing at George Bush Intercontinental Airport Wednesday afternoon. The Houston Airport System said there were reports of smoke inside the cockpit. The Houston Fire Department said four soldiers were on board and had to be evacuated. Firefighters made a full sweep of the DC-10 but found no signs of smoke…
A WestJet aircraft headed for Toronto from Edmonton made a successful emergency landing late Tuesday morning in Thunder Bay. The plane, which departed from Edmonton at 7 a.m. MT, was surrounded by fire trucks at Thunder Bay airport but there was no sign of flames or visible smoke. According to a statement from WestJet, the captain reported…
Russian prosecutors claim the driver of the snowplow which crashed with Total CEO Christophe de Margerie’s jet was drunk. The Falcon 50 business jet carrying the French oil giant’s CEO hit a snow-plow at around 12:10am Moscow time on Tuesday. Although previous reports indicated otherwise, the plane did not leave ground following the collision.
Kenya Airways wishes to confirm that its flight KQ221 from New Delhi to Nairobi was diverted to Moi International Airport in Mombasa this afternoon. The aircraft developed a mechanical fault in the fuel control system and although it had enough fuel, it needed to land at the nearest alternate airport. This was also a precautionary…
A packed holiday jet made an emergency landing after a series of errors by the pilot who was stressed about being demoted, a report has revealed. The Thomas Cook plane with 235 passengers and seven crew on board touched down with critically low fuel levels, according to an inquiry. It was due to land at…
An AirAsia passenger plane hit an egret while landing at Nakhon Si Thammarat airport yesterday morning, delaying its return flight to Bangkok. The left engine of flight FD3188 from Don Mueang airport in Bangkok sucked in the bird as the plane was descending to land at Nakhon Si Thammarat airport about 7.30am. The pilot landed the…
A small corporate jet made an emergency landing at Denver International Airport on Wednesday afternoon with its landing gear up, according to airport officials.DIA said on Twitter at 3:23 p.m. that the plane had landed and all passengers were safely evacuated.The Hawker Beechcraft H25B plane with three people on board departed from Centennial Airport about…
A FedEx cargo plane made an emergency landing in Sacramento after noticing a possible engine fire. The plane landed safely at Sacramento International Airport. The plane, a DC-10, landed just before 6 p.m. The pilot was able to put out the flames using fire extinguishers. The pilot and the plane’s crew are safe. This fire…
An American Airlines flight from San Francisco to Dallas had to make an emergency landing at SFO after panels inside the plane’s cabin began to come apart in mid-air, the airline confirmed Monday afternoon. AA Flight 2293 landed without incident at about 2:15 p.m., an hour after takeoff, and taxied to the gate, according to…
A US Airways flight from New York safely made an emergency landing Saturday evening at its destination in Charlotte after oxygen masks deployed in the final minutes amid indications of a pressurization issue, a spokesman said, adding one of its regional flights also made a safe emergency landing in Charlotte soon afterward.
A Delta flight had to make an emergency landing at Orlando International Airport on Thursday during its flight from Fort Myers to Atlanta. The plane lost hydraulic pressure on the left side of the aircraft, a Delta spokeswoman said. The plane landed safely.
Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans has said that one of the 298 people killed in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane over eastern Ukraine was found wearing an oxygen mask. He indicated that not everybody on board had died instantly when the plane was hit by a missile.